Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 88
No man is a better knight than he, so say all that know him.
Who acts: man, that · What happens: be, say, know · To what, where: better knight, One · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knight | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 knight | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 knight | amod |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 he | case |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 say | advmod |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knight | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 know | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | no man | a better knight | than One | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | no man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | that | One | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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